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The suppression demanded for years will become real by "solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement".
Grindr, gay dating application, will remove the “ethnicity” filter from its application. The intermediary 2.0 announced this information on his twitter
This initiative arrives by "solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement".
Many critics have long called for this change in the criteria for finding potential partners, AFP notes.
It also intervenes in a context of solidarity on social networks, expressed by individuals and certain companies, in favor of demonstrators who protest against racism and police violence that affect African-Americans. "We will not be silent and we will not be idle. We will continue to fight racism on Grindr, both through dialogue with our community and through zero tolerance against racism and hate speech on and off the platform ”"said Grindr on Twitter.
In the United States, the demonstrations multiply, since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis (Minnesota). The 46-year-old black man was asphyxiated by a white police officer on Monday, May 25, during an arrest.
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